Disclaimer: This list was assembled by analyzing table-of-contents data from the ACM Digital Library with the least imaginable care. Some ad-hoc heuristics were applied to skip through the raw data and sift out some of the noise such as panel sessions and award abstracts. Therefore (and for other, obvious reasons): do not use this for anything serious (such as tenure or marriage decisions, bullying etc). Anyone's position in any of the lists has got nothing to do with how good a graphics researcher they are. We all know there are lots of brillant folks with very low scores according to these lists, or who don't show up here at all, and it doesn't make their work any less excellent and inspiring.

At Last: The True Measure of Achievement in Graphics Research

Forget about the h-index; forget about your prestigious research awards and your Avatar and/or Lord of the Rings credits. Every graphics researcher knows that there is only one valid measure of awesomeness, and that is your SIGGRAPH paper count. So here, for everybody to enjoy (and/or to grind your teeth about), is an all-time high score of SIGGRAPH paper authors.

On rare occasions, there are multiple authors with the same abbreviated name, e.g., [He Zimmer] or [J. Lewis] or [Ya Wang]. Congratulations on your particularly meaningless scores! Now, if you will excuse me, I'm heading off to have my name changed to Frank Durand.

Hint: We offer an increasing range of differently weighted scores; feel free to pick whichever makes you feel the least miserable, and brag about it on your CV. If you have supervised a lot of students, or you collaborate with anyone and everyone to get your paper count up, your best bet may be the Vanilla Index. People who prefer to participate in the actual research process may check out the alternative indices, the Grad Student Index the First Author Index and the Single Author Index. For the directorial type, we are working feverishly to bring you the Last Author Index soon.

Score polishing advice: Folks such as myself, who have already magically obtained a Master's or Ph.D., are best advised to keep on publishing as first authors (ideally by stealing ideas from students, or at least by making it plausible to them that students can't be first authors by convention) since such publications will count towards all three scores. Students: I am sorry to disappoint, but as your supervisor's personal slave, there is nothing you can really do. Make the best of the situation by working really hard (night shifts!!) in the hope that they will, one day, recognize and reward your efforts.Regardless of your status, it goes without saying that as a SIGGRAPH reviewer, you have to make sure to give all submissions the lowest possible rating and be as unfair and abusive as you can. This will not only get the paper rejected but also teach the authors not to submit to SIGGRAPH ever again--in other words, they will never get to push you from your precious hundred-somethingth position on the list.

In this index, a SIGGRAPH paper only counts towards your score if it is authored only by you (or if you managed to keep your ghostwriters from blowing the whistle). First and Single Author Index are the only ones with entries of score zero. If you're one of them: congratulations on your SIGGRAPH papers! Too bad they're worthless here.

Usage: Use browser search function to find your (or someone else's) name in the list. For instance, I, [Ma Hullin], have never ever been single author on a SIGGRAPH paper, so it is only thanks to the very fortunate alphabetical ordering that I'm Single Author #1907 and not at the very bottom of this list.